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242. History of Netherlandish Art and Visual Culture in a European Context. Second half of Art History 241-242;
required for credit for 241. (Taught in the Netherlands.) Not open to students who have taken Art History 158-159.
Instructor: Van Miegroet. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 242, Visual Studies 211
245S. Art and Markets. Cross-disciplinary art history-visual culture-economics seminar. Analytical and applied
historical exploration of cultural production and local art markets, and their emergence throughout Europe, Asia, and
the Americas. Criteria for valuation of imagery or what makes art as a commodity desirable or fashionable. Visual taste
formation, consumer behavior, and the role of art dealers as cross-cultural negotiants. Consent of instructor required.
Instructor: Van Miegroet. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 245S, Economics 244S, Visual Studies
252AS
247S. Topics in Italian Renaissance Art. Topics in art and/or architecture from c. 1300 to c. 1600. Subject varies from
year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Staff. 3 units. C-L: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 248S
250S. Critical Studies in New Media. 3 units. C-L: see Information Science and Information Studies 250S; also C-L:
Literature 261S, Visual Studies 250AS
255S. Museum Theory and Practice. Museum theory and the operation of museums, especially art museums, and how
the gap between theory and practice is negotiated in the real world setting. Issues involving collecting practices,
exhibition practices, and didactic techniques, as well as legal and ethical issues. Taught in the Nasher Museum.
Instructor: Rorschach. 3 units.
256S. Inventing the Museum: Collecting and Cultural Discourses of the Nineteenth Century. 3 units. C-L: see German
286S; also C-L: History 286AS, Romance Studies 286S
265S. Topics in Nineteenth-Century Art. Focus on a major artist, movement, or trend in nineteenth-century art. Subject
varies from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructorr: Antliff, Leighten, or McWilliam. 3 units.
270S. Topics in African Art. Specific problems of iconography, style, connoisseurship, or a particular art tradition in
African art. Subject varies from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Powell. 3 units. C-L: African
and African American Studies 270S
272S. Topics in Chinese Art. Problems and issues in a specific period or genre of Chinese art. Specific focus varies from
year to year. Instructor: Abe. 3 units.
274S. Topics in Japanese Art. Problems and issues in a specific period or genre of Japanese art. Specific focus varies
from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Weisenfeld. 3 units.
283S. Topics in Modern Art. Selected themes in modern art before 1945, with emphasis on major movements or masters.
Subject varies from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Antliff, Leighten, or Stiles. 3 units.
284AS. Caricature and Popular Journalism in England 1760-1850. Social and political caricature from the accession
of George III to the early Victorian era. Caricature and party politics; satires of fashionable society; reactions to the
American War of Independence, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Caricature, radical journalism and
the reform movement; the emergence of comic journalism. Instructor: McWilliam. 3 units.
285S. Information Archeology: Studies in the Nature of Information and Artifact in the Digital Environment. 3 units.
C-L: see Information Science and Information Studies 260S
288S. Special Topics. Subjects, areas, or themes that embrace a range of disciplines or art historical areas. Instructor:
Staff. 3 units.
296S. Methodology of Art History. Various theoretical perspectives that have shaped different disciplinary perspectives
and practices in art history. Introduction to particular types of methodologies (i.e. Marxism, feminism, race and gender,
psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory, and deconstruction) as fields of inquiry through which the study of the visual arts
and culture have been practiced. Historiography of the last two decades in art history; selected contemporary debates.
Instructor: Staff. 3 units.
297S. Topics in Art since 1945. Historical and critical principles applied to present-day artists and/or movements in all
media since World War II. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Stiles. 3 units.
For Graduate Students Only
301. Museum Studies. Introduction to the organization and functions of the museum in preparation for the presentation
of a student-organized exhibition. Most of the semester spent in independent study researching scholarly, critical essays
for the catalog. Instructor: Museum Staff. 3 units.
302. Museum Studies. Completion of research and preparation of the catalog. Students actively participate in catalog
design and production, and will be responsible for planning and installing the exhibition as well as interpreting it to the
public through lectures and tours. Instructor: Museum Staff. 3 units.
303. Critical Approaches to Exhibitions and Museums. The historical context and critical analysis of exhibition theory
and practices from curiosity cabinets to ethnological museums to postmodern spectacles with special attention to the
development of the fine art museum as a distinctive site of visual display and consumption. Instructor: Abe. 3 units.
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